Gerti is a leader in medtech with more than 12 years of experience across cardiovascular, orthopedic, specialty-surgery, imaging, and diagnostics areas.
He has advised clients on a range of topics that include strategy, commercial models, M&A, postmerger integration, digital transformation, organization, and operations.
Examples of his recent client work include the following:
- developing corporate strategy for leading global healthcare companies
- collaborating with leading global medical-device companies on new US commercial models
- performing portfolio analysis and strategy development for large life sciences companies
- assisting healthcare-portfolio companies of leading US private-equity firms with 100-day plans, turnarounds, cost cutting, pricing, sales, marketing, and strategy development for
- performing more than 15 strategic due diligences of healthcare assets in the Asia, Europe, and the United States for leading European and US private-equity firms
- helping leading global investors with thematic investing in healthcare
Published work
“Value creation priorities shaping medtech,” McKinsey & Company, October 2024
“What to expect from medtech in 2024,” McKinsey & Company, February 2024
“Digital diagnostics: A path forward for IVD,” McKinsey & Company, December 2023
“Accelerating growth in medtech: The next surge in portfolio moves,” McKinsey & Company, May 2022
“Reimagining medtech for a COVID-19 world,” McKinsey & Company, April 2020
“Bioelectronics ‘jump-start’ the next wave of device therapeutics,” McKinsey & Company, October 2019
“Divestiture in medtech: Are you the natural owner of your businesses?,” McKinsey & Company, March 2019
“Delivering growth: M&A in medical technology,” McKinsey & Company, January 2018
“The growth imperative for medical-device companies,” McKinsey & Company, September 2017
“Under the lens: Does scale matter in medical technology?” Medtech Strategist, July 2015, Volume 2, Number 13
“Value creation in medical device M&A,” McKinsey & Company, September 2014
Past experience
Merrill Lynch
Associate, Retail Investment Banking group
Circuit City
Senior financial analyst
Education
University of Virginia, Darden School of Business
MBA
University of Maine
BS, finance, management information systems
